| Sir Paul McCartney |
| | Background information | | Birth name | James Paul McCartney | | Born | 18 June 1942 (1942-06-18) (age 65)
Liverpool, Merseyside, England | | Genre(s) | Rock, pop rock, psychedelic rock, experimental rock, rock and roll, classical
| | Occupation(s) | Singer-songwriter, musician, artist, activist | | Instrument(s) | Bass guitar, guitar, piano, keyboards, drums | | Years active | 1957—present | | Label(s) | Swan
Hear Music
Apple
Parlophone
Capitol
CBS
EMI | | Associated acts | The Beatles, The Fireman, The Quarrymen, Wings | | Website | www.paulmccartney.com | | Notable instrument(s) | Hofner 500/1 bass guitar
Rickenbacker 4001 bass guitar
Gibson Les Paul
Epiphone Casino | Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE (born 18 June 1942) is an English singer-songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist, poet, entrepreneur, painter, record producer, film producer, and animal-rights activist. He gained worldwide fame as one of the founders and members of The Beatles. McCartney and John Lennon formed one of the most influential and successful songwriting partnerships and "wrote some of the most popular music in rock and roll history".[1] After leaving The Beatles, McCartney launched a successful solo career and formed the band Wings with his first wife, Linda Eastman McCartney, and songwriter/singer Denny Laine. He has worked on film scores, classical music, and ambient/electronic music; released a large catalogue of songs as a solo artist; and taken part in projects to help international charities. ImageMetadata File history File links Paul_McCartney_on_stage_in_Prague. ...
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Psychedelic rock is a style of rock music that attempts to replicate the mind-altering experiences of hallucinogenic drugs. ...
Experimental rock or Avant rock is a type of art music based on rock and roll which experiments with the basic elements of the genre, and/or which pushes the boundaries of common composition and performance technique. ...
Rock and roll (also spelled Rock n Roll, especially in its first decade), also called rock, is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles. ...
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The Quarry Men (sometimes Quarrymen) were a little-known skiffle group formed around Liverpool, England in March 1957 by John Lennon. ...
Wings was a rock music supergroup formed in August 1971, after the breakup of The Beatles, by ex-Beatle Paul McCartney. ...
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John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (October 9, 1940 – December 8, 1980), (born John Winston Lennon, known as John Ono Lennon) was an iconic English 20th century rock and roll songwriter and singer, best known as the founding member of The Beatles. ...
The songwriting partnership of John Lennon and Paul McCartney, usually referred to as Lennon/McCartney (sometimes McCartney/Lennon), is one of the best-known and most successful musical collaborations of all time. ...
Wings was a rock music supergroup formed in August 1971, after the breakup of The Beatles, by ex-Beatle Paul McCartney. ...
Linda Louise Eastman McCartney (September 24, 1941 – April 17, 1998) was an American photographer, musician, and animal rights activist. ...
Denny Laine (born Brian Hines, on 29 October 1944, in Birmingham) is an English songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, best known for his roles as former guitarist and lead singer of The Moody Blues and, later, co-founder (along with Paul McCartney) of Wings. ...
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McCartney is listed in Guinness World Records as the most successful musician and composer in popular music history, with 60 gold discs and sales of 100 million singles.[2] His song "Yesterday" is listed as the most covered song in history and has been played more than 7,000,000 times on American television and radio. Wings' 1977 single "Mull of Kintyre" became the first single to sell more than two million copies in the UK, and remains the UK's top selling non-charity single.[3] (Three charity singles have since surpassed it in sales; the first to do so—in 1984—was Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?", whose participants included McCartney.) Guinness World Records 2008 edition. ...
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Mull of Kintyre is a popular 1977 song by former Beatle Paul McCartney and his band Wings. ...
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His company MPL Communications owns the copyrights to more than 3,000 songs[4], including all of the songs written by Buddy Holly, along with the publishing rights to such musicals as Guys and Dolls, A Chorus Line, and Grease. MPL Communications is the umbrella company for the business interests of Sir Paul McCartney. ...
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An iconic figure in contemporary culture, he is regarded internationally as an entertainer and humanitarian. Aside from his musical work, McCartney is an actor, a painter, a poet, and an advocate for animal rights, vegetarianism, and music education; he is active in campaigns against landmines, seal hunting, and Third World debt. Actors in period costume sharing a joke whilst waiting between takes during location filming. ...
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James Paul McCartney was born in Walton Hospital in Liverpool, England, where his mother, Mary, had worked as a nurse in the maternity ward.[5] He has one brother, Michael, born 7 January 1944.[6] McCartney was baptised Roman Catholic but was raised non-denominationally: his mother was Roman Catholic, and his father, James "Jim" McCartney, was a Protestant turned agnostic.[6] For Paul and Linda McCartneys daughter, photographer Mary McCartney, see Mary McCartney. ...
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In 1947, he began attending Stockton Wood Road Primary school. He then attended the Joseph Williams Junior School, and passed the 11-plus exam in 1953 with three others out of the 90 examinees and thus gained admission to the Liverpool Institute.[7] In 1954, while riding on the bus to the Institute, he met George Harrison, who lived nearby.[8] Passing the exam meant that McCartney and Harrison did not have to go to a secondary modern school, which most pupils attended until they were eligible to work. It also meant that Grammar school pupils had to find new friends.[9] The Eleven Plus is an examination given to students aged 11 since about 1944 in some parts of the United Kingdom to select whether they go to a grammar school or to a secondary modern. ...
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 20 Forthlin Road now attracts large numbers of tourists In 1955 the McCartney family moved to 20 Forthlin Road in Allerton.[10] Mary McCartney rode a bicycle to houses where she was needed as a midwife, and an early McCartney memory is of her leaving when it was snowing heavily.[11] On 31 October 1956, Mary McCartney (who was a heavy smoker) died of an embolism after a mastectomy operation to stop the spread of her breast cancer.[12] The early loss of his mother later connected McCartney with John Lennon, whose mother, Julia, died when Lennon was 17.[13] Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2304 × 1728 pixel, file size: 1. ...
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John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (October 9, 1940 – December 8, 1980), (born John Winston Lennon, known as John Ono Lennon) was an iconic English 20th century rock and roll songwriter and singer, best known as the founding member of The Beatles. ...
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McCartney's father was a trumpet player and pianist who had led Jim Mac's Jazz Band in the 1920s. He encouraged his two sons to be musical.[14] Jim had an upright piano in the front room that he had bought from Harry Epstein's store, and McCartney's grandfather, Joe McCartney, played an E-flat tuba.[15][16] Jim McCartney used to point out the different instruments in songs on the radio, and often took McCartney to local brass band concerts.[16] After the death of his wife, Mary, Jim McCartney gave McCartney a nickel-plated trumpet, but when skiffle music became popular, McCartney swapped the trumpet for a £15 Framus Zenith (model 17) acoustic guitar.[17][18] The piano Piano is a common abbreviation for pianoforte, a large musical instrument with a keyboard (see keyboard instrument). ...
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McCartney, being left-handed, found the Zenith impossible to play. He then saw a poster advertising Slim Whitman and realised that Whitman played left-handed, with his guitar strung the opposite way to a right-handed player.[18][19] McCartney wrote his first song ("I Lost My Little Girl") on the Zenith, and also played his father's Framus Spanish guitar when writing early songs with John Lennon.[20] He later started playing piano and wrote "When I'm Sixty-Four".[21] Per his father's advice, he took music lessons, but since he preferred to learn 'by ear' he never paid attention in them.[21] Slim Whitman (born January 20, 1924 in Tampa, Florida) is an American country music singer and songwriter. ...
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Fifteen-year-old McCartney met Lennon and the Quarrymen (a band formed by John Lennon with several school friends) at the Woolton (St. Peter's church hall) fête on 6 July 1957.[22] At the start of their friendship Lennon's Aunt Mimi disapproved of McCartney because he was, she said, "working class", and called McCartney "John's little friend".[23] McCartney's father told his son that Lennon would get him "into trouble", although he later allowed The Quarrymen to rehearse in the front room at 20 Forthlin Road.[24][25] The Quarry Men (sometimes Quarrymen) were a little-known skiffle group formed around Liverpool, England in March 1957 by John Lennon. ...
The songwriting partnership of John Lennon and Paul McCartney, usually referred to as Lennon/McCartney (sometimes McCartney/Lennon), is one of the best-known and most successful musical collaborations of all time. ...
The Quarry Men (sometimes Quarrymen) were a little-known skiffle group formed around Liverpool, England in March 1957 by John Lennon. ...
John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (October 9, 1940 – December 8, 1980), (born John Winston Lennon, known as John Ono Lennon) was an iconic English 20th century rock and roll songwriter and singer, best known as the founding member of The Beatles. ...
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McCartney formed a close working relationship with Lennon and they collaborated on many songs. He convinced Lennon to allow George Harrison to join the Quarrymen after Lennon's initial reluctance (because of Harrison's young age) when Lennon heard Harrison play at a rehearsal in March 1958.[26] Harrison joined the group as lead guitarist, followed by Lennon's art school friend, Stuart Sutcliffe, on bass. McCartney would later be at the forefront of the dismissal of Sutcliffe, due to his lack of musical ability.[27][28] By May 1960, they had tried several new names, including the Silver Beetles (and played a tour with Johnny Gentle, in Scotland). The Beatles changed the name of the group for their performances in Hamburg, in August 1960.[29][30] For other persons named George Harrison, see George Harrison (disambiguation). ...
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Stuart Fergusson Victor Sutcliffe (23 June 1940 – 10 April 1962) was a British musician and artist who, until his early death, worked in a style related to Abstract Expressionism. ...
The Quarry Men (sometimes Quarrymen) were a little-known skiffle group formed around Liverpool, England in March 1957 by John Lennon. ...
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Starting in May 1960 The Beatles were managed by Allan Williams, who booked them into Bruno Koschmider's Indra club in Hamburg. McCartney's father was reluctant to let the teenage McCartney go to Hamburg until McCartney pointed out that he would earn two pounds and ten shillings per day. As this was more than he earned himself, Jim finally agreed.[31] The White Album, see The Beatles (album). ...
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The Beatles first played at the Indra club, sleeping in small, dirty rooms in the Bambi Kino, and then moved (after the closure of the Indra) to the larger Kaiserkeller.[32] In October 1960, they left Koschmider's club and worked at the "Top Ten Club", which was run by Peter Eckhorn.[33][34] When McCartney and Pete Best went back to the Bambi Kino to get their belongings they found it in almost total darkness. As a snub to Koschmider, they found a condom, attached it to a nail on the concrete wall of their room, and set fire to it. There was no real damage, but Koschmider reported them for attempted arson. McCartney and Best spent three hours in a local jail and were deported, as was George Harrison, for working under the legal age limit.[35] Lennon's work permit was revoked a few days later and he went home by train, but Sutcliffe had a cold and stayed in Hamburg, and then flew home.[36] For other uses, see Indra (disambiguation). ...
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The group reunited in December 1960, and on 21 March 1961, played their first of many concerts at Liverpool's Cavern club.[37][38] McCartney realised that other Liverpool bands were playing the same cover songs, which prompted him and Lennon to write more original material.[39] The Beatles returned to Hamburg in April 1961, and recorded "My Bonnie" with Tony Sheridan.[40] Sutcliffe left the band after the end of their contract, so McCartney reluctantly took over bass.[41] After borrowing Sutcliffe's Hõfner 500/5 model for a short time, he bought a left-handed 1962 500/1 model Höfner bass.[42][43] On 1 October 1961, McCartney went with Lennon (who paid for the trip) to Paris for two weeks.[44] is the 80th day of the year (81st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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The Beatles were first seen by Brian Epstein at the Cavern club on 9 November 1961, and he later signed them to a management contract.[45] The Beatles' road manager, Neil Aspinall, drove them to London on 31 December 1961, where they auditioned the next day, but were rejected by Decca Records.[46] In April 1962, they went back to Hamburg to play at the Star-Club, and learned of Stuart Sutcliffe's death a few hours before they arrived.[47] The Beatles were ready to sign a record contract on 9 May 1962, with Parlophone Records—after having been rejected by many record companies—but Epstein sacked Pete Best (at the behest of McCartney, Lennon and Harrison) before they signed the contract.[48] "Love Me Do" was released on 5 October 1962, featuring McCartney singing solo on the chorus line.[49] Over the course of the next two years, McCartney and his band mates would rise from relative obscurity to international stardom, an unprecedented feat at that time for a rock-music combo. Brian Samuel Epstein (IPA: ) (born in Liverpool, England; 19 September 1934 – 27 August 1967) was the manager of The Beatles. ...
External view of the New Cavern Club, January 2006 The Cavern Club, which was opened on January 16, 1957, is a legendary rock and roll club at 10 Mathew Street, Liverpool, England, where Brian Epstein was introduced to the Beatles on 9 November 1961. ...
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Neil Aspinall (born in Prestatyn, North Wales, October 13, 1942) was the road manager and personal assistant for the Beatles. ...
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Stuart Fergusson Victor Sutcliffe (23 June 1940 – 10 April 1962) was a British musician and artist who, until his early death, worked in a style related to Abstract Expressionism. ...
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All Lennon-McCartney songs on the first pressing of Please Please Me album (recorded in one day on 11 February 1963)[50] as well as the "Please Please Me" single, "From Me to You", and its B-side, "Thank You Girl", are credited to "McCartney-Lennon", but this was later changed to "Lennon-McCartney".[51] They usually needed an hour or two to finish a song, which were written in hotel rooms after a concert, at Wimpole Street, at Cavendish Avenue, or at Kenwood (John Lennon's house).[52] McCartney also wrote songs for other artists, such as Billy J. Kramer, Cilla Black, Badfinger, and Mary Hopkin -and most notably he wrote two hit songs for the group Peter & Gordon-launching their career. One song, "World Without Love", became a #1 hit in the U.K. & U.S. (Peter was the brother of Jane Asher, McCartney's girlfriend at the time)[53] This article is about the album. ...
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Billy J. Kramer (born William Howard Ashton, 19 August 1943, in Bootle, Liverpool, England) was a British Invasion / Merseybeat singer. ...
Cilla Black OBE (born 27 May 1942) is an English singer-songwriter and television personality, born Priscilla Maria Veronica White to a Protestant father and a Catholic mother in Liverpool. ...
Badfinger were a rock/pop band formed in Swansea, Wales in 1965, and one of the earliest representatives of the power pop genre. ...
Mary Hopkin Mary Hopkin (born May 3, 1950) is a Welsh folk singer. ...
Jane Asher (born 5 April 1946) is an English film and television actress and the author of several full-length novels as well as a former girlfriend of Paul McCartney. ...
Lennon, Harrison, and Starr lived in large houses in the 'stockbroker belt' of southern England,[54] but McCartney continued to live in central London: in Jane Asher's parents' house, and then at 7 Cavendish Avenue, St John's Wood, near the Abbey Road Studios.[54] It was at Cavendish Avenue that McCartney bought his first Old English Sheepdog, Martha, which inspired the song "Martha My Dear".[55] Commuters from East Anglia arrive at Londons Liverpool Street station The London Commuter Belt, or London Metropolitan Area, is the name given to the built-up area surrounding and running into Greater London but not administered as part of it. ...
St Johns Wood is a district of North London, England in the City of Westminster, near Regents Park. ...
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The Old English Sheepdog is a breed of dog used for herding livestock, and as a pet. ...
Martha My Dear is a Beatles song which first appeared on the double-disc album The Beatles (also known as The White Album). ...
McCartney often went to nightclubs alone, which offered 'dining and dancing until 4.00 a.m.' and featured cabaret acts.[56] McCartney would get preferential treatment everywhere he went, which he readily accepted.[57] He even once accepted an offer from a policeman to be allowed to park McCartney's car.[56] He later visited gambling clubs after 4.00am, such as 'The Curzon House', and often saw Brian Epstein there.[58] The Ad Lib club (above the Prince Charles Theatre at 7 Leicester Place) was later opened for the emerging 'Rock and Roll' crowd of musicians, and tolerated their unusual lifestyle.[59] After the Ad Lib fell out of favour, McCartney moved on to the Scotch of St James, at 13 Masons Yard.[60] He also frequented The Bag O'Nails club at 8 Kingly Street in Soho, London, where he met Linda Eastman.[61][62] Cabaret is a form of entertainment featuring comedy, song, dance, and theatre, distinguished mainly by the performance venue — a restaurant or nightclub with a stage for performances and the audience sitting around the tables (often dining or drinking) watching the performance. ...
A Police Constable of West Yorkshire Police on patrol The United Kingdom (UK) does not have one single police service serving the general public; with the exception of various special police forces and of Northern Ireland (which has one unified force, the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI)), police forces...
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The Scotch of St James club was a meeting place for popular musicians in the 1960s, [1] at 13 Masons Yard, London. ...
The Bag ONails club at 8 Kingly Street in Soho, London, was a meeting point for musicians in the 1960s, as well as being a venue for concerts. ...
Cast-iron architecture in Greene Street SoHo is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan. ...
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Linda McCartney and Denny Laine in the 1970s as members of Wings Linda McCartney (September 24, 1941 - April 17, 1998), born Linda Eastman in Scarsdale, New York, was an American photographer. ...
On 12 June 1965, The Beatles were appointed Members of the Order of the British Empire (MBE); they received their insignia from Queen Elizabeth II at an investiture at Buckingham Palace on 26 October 1965. They stopped touring after their last concert at Candlestick Park, San Francisco, on 29 August 1966. The other three Beatles had often talked about stopping touring, but after the Candlestick Park concert, and after having played so many concerts where they could not be heard, McCartney finally agreed that they should stop playing live concerts.[63] is the 163rd day of the year (164th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1965 Gregorian calendar. ...
The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by King George V. The Order includes five classes in civil and military divisions; in decreasing order of seniority, these are Knight Grand Cross or Dame Grand Cross (GBE) Knight Commander...
Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor; born 21 April 1926) is Queen of sixteen sovereign states, holding each crown and title equally. ...
Investiture, from the Latin (preposition in and verb vestire, dress from vestis robe) is a rather general term for the formal installation of an incumbent (heir, elect of nominee) in public office, especially by taking possession of its insignia. ...
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Year 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1965 Gregorian calendar. ...
Monster Park (colloquially, The Stick or Candlestick, after its original name of Candlestick Park) is an outdoor sports and entertainment stadium located in the San Francisco Bay Area in California. ...
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is the 241st day of the year (242nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the 1966 Gregorian calendar. ...
McCartney was the first to be involved in a musical project outside of the group, when he composed the score for the film The Family Way in 1966.[64] The soundtrack was later released as an album (also called The Family Way), and won the Ivor Novello Award for Best Instrumental Theme, ahead of acclaimed jazz musician Mike Turner.[65] McCartney wrote songs for and produced other artists, including Mary Hopkin, Badfinger, and the Bonzo Dog Band, and in 1966, he was asked by Kenneth Tynan to write the songs for the National Theatre's production of As You Like It by William Shakespeare (starring Laurence Olivier) but declined.[66] In 1968 he co-produced the song "I'm The Urban Spaceman" by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band and was credited as "Apollo C. Vermouth" because of contractual restrictions.[67] The Family Way is a 1966 movie by Roy and John Boulting starring father and daughter John Mills and Hayley Mills. ...
The Family Way is the first album by Paul McCartney, a soundtrack from the same name film released in 1967. ...
The Ivor Novello Awards, named after the entertainer Ivor Novello, are awards awarded for songwriting and composing. ...
The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band (more often the Bonzo Dog Band) were the brainchild of a British art-school set of the 1960s. ...
Kenneth Peacock Tynan (April 2, 1927 - July 26, 1980), was an influential and often controversial British theatre critic and writer. ...
The Royal National Theatre from Waterloo Bridge The Royal National Theatre is a building complex and theatre company located on the South Bank in London, England immediately east of the southern end of Waterloo Bridge. ...
Walter Deverell,The Mock Marriage of Orlando and Rosalind, 1853 William Shakespeares As You Like It is a pastoral comedy written in 1599 or early 1600. ...
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Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, OM, (IPA: ; 22 May 1907 – 11 July 1989) was an Academy Award, Golden Globe, BAFTA and four-time Emmy winning English actor, director, and producer. ...
The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band (more often the Bonzo Dog Band or to fans simply the Bonzos) were the brainchild of a British art-school set of the 1960s. ...
McCartney later attempted to persuade Lennon and Harrison to return to the stage, and when they had a meeting to sign a new contract with Capitol Records, McCartney suggested "going back to our roots," to which Lennon replied, "I think you're mad!"[68] Although Lennon had quit the group in September 1969, and Harrison and Starr had temporarily left the group at various times, McCartney was the one who publicly announced The Beatles' breakup on 10 April 1970—one week before releasing his first solo album, McCartney.[69] The album included a press release inside with a self-written interview stating McCartney's hopes about the future. The Beatles' partnership was legally dissolved after McCartney filed a lawsuit on 31 December 1970.[70] Capitol Records is a major United States-based record label owned by EMI and located in Hollywood, California. ...
The Beatles are one of the most popular and influential musical groups in history. ...
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McCartney is the first solo album by Paul McCartney and was released in 1970. ...
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[edit] 1970s: Paul McCartney (solo) and Wings -
 Paul and Linda McCartney at the 1974 Academy Awards. McCartney released his debut solo album, McCartney, in April 1970. He insisted that his wife should be involved in his musical career so that they would not be apart when he was on tour.[71] McCartney's second solo album, Ram (1971) was credited to both Paul and Linda McCartney. In August of that year McCartney formed Wings with guitarist Denny Laine and drummer Denny Seiwell (although membership in Wings would change several times during its existence) and released their debut album, Wild Life. In 1972, Wings started an unplanned tour of British universities and small European venues.[72] In February of that year, they released a single called "Give Ireland Back to the Irish",[73] which was banned by the BBC.[74] Wings then embarked on the 26-date Wings Over Europe Tour. This page includes the complete discography of Paul McCartney as a solo artist and as a member of Wings. ...
Wings was a rock music supergroup formed in August 1971, after the breakup of The Beatles, by ex-Beatle Paul McCartney. ...
McCartney is the first solo album by Paul McCartney and was released in 1970. ...
Ram is Paul McCartneys second solo album, officially credited to Paul and Linda McCartney, and was released in 1971. ...
Wings was a rock music supergroup formed in August 1971, after the breakup of The Beatles, by ex-Beatle Paul McCartney. ...
Denny Laine (born Brian Hines, on 29 October 1944, in Birmingham) is an English songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, best known for his roles as former guitarist and lead singer of The Moody Blues and, later, co-founder (along with Paul McCartney) of Wings. ...
Denny Seiwell is a drummer, and was a founding member of Paul McCartneys band Wings. ...
Wild Life is the debut album by Wings, a band formed in the summer of 1971 by Paul McCartney and his wife Linda. ...
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Wings University Tour was a concert tour by Paul McCartney & Wings in 1972, shortly after the bands formation and initial album release, Wild Life. ...
Give Ireland Back to the Irish is a Paul and Linda McCartney song written in response to the events of Bloody Sunday in Northern Ireland on January 30, 1972. ...
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In the summer of 1972, Paul McCartneys newly-formed band, Wings, set out on a concert tour of Europe. ...
Wings' 1973 album Red Rose Speedway spawned the band's first #1 in the United States, "My Love".[75] On 16 April, McCartney starred in a TV variety show called James Paul McCartney.[76] The band released Band on the Run,[77] which won two Grammy Awards[78] and is Wings' most lauded work. In October 1972, McCartney recorded the theme song for the James Bond film Live and Let Die.[72] In 1973, Wings released the single "Jet",[79] and in 1974, "Band on the Run" (the song) and "Junior's Farm".[80] A jam session — with Lennon and McCartney — was recorded in California, in 1974, and released on the bootleg A Toot and a Snore in '74. The same year, he recorded an instrumental, "Walking in the Park with Eloise",[81] which had been written by his father. The song featured Wings, Floyd Cramer and Chet Atkins.[82] "Venus and Mars" was released in 1975 which featured "Listen to What the Man Said" and "Rock Show."[citation needed] Till 1976, Wings embarked on the Wings Over the World tour. Red Rose Speedway is Paul McCartneys fourth album release and second Wings album, officially credited to Paul McCartney & Wings upon its 1973 release, after the relatively weak commercial performance of the bands debut Wild Life had been credited only to the then-unknown Wings. ...
McCartney wrote My Love - a song to commemorate his love of Linda McCartney - and which became Wings first number one single hit in England. ...
See TV (disambiguation) for other uses and Television (band) for the rock band European networks National In much of Europe television broadcasting has historically been state dominated, rather than commercially organised, although commercial stations have grown in number recently. ...
A variety show is a show with a variety of acts, often including music and comedy skits, especially on television. ...
Band on the Run is an album by Wings, released in 1973. ...
Grammy Award statuette The Grammy Awards, presented by the Recording Academy (an association of Americans professionally involved in the recorded music industry) for outstanding achievements in the recording industry, is one of four major music awards shows held annually in the United States (the Billboard Music Awards, the American Music...
link title Live and Let Die, from the James Bond film and soundtrack Live and Let Die, is one of Sir Paul McCartneys most successful singles. ...
This article is about the spy series. ...
Live and Let Die (1973) is the eighth spy film of the British James Bond series and the first to star Roger Moore as the fictional British secret agent James Bond. ...
Jet, a hit song from Paul McCartney and Wings acclaimed Band on the Run album, is about one of McCartneys dogs. ...
Band on the Run is the title song from Paul McCartney and Wings acclaimed Band on the Run album, one of McCartneys most ambitious and best-loved songs. ...
A strong one-off single recorded in Nashville in 1974, this song continued Paul McCartney and Wings winning streak both commercially and critically after the Band on the Run album. ...
A jam session is a musical act where musicians gather and play (or jam) without extensive preparation or predefined arrangements. ...
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For other uses, see Bootleg. ...
A Toot and a Snore in 74 is a rare bootleg album of the one and only jam session in which John Lennon and Paul McCartney played together after the break-up of the Beatles. ...
Floyd Cramer (October 27, 1933 - December 31, 1997) was an American Hall of Fame pianist who was one of the architects of the Nashville Sound. ...
Chet Atkins Chester Burton Chet Atkins (June 20, 1924 – June 30, 2001) was an influential guitarist and record producer. ...
In 1975 and 1976, Paul McCartneys band Wings embarked on the ambitious Wings Over the World tour. ...
In 1977, McCartney released Thrillington
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